“Radio is a sound salvation. Radio is cleaning up the nation. They say you better listen to the voice of reason. But they don’t give you any choice ’cause they think that it’s treason. So you had better do as you are told. You better listen to the radio.” – Elvis Costello (famously protesting commercialization [...]
Our weekly two hour show on SIRIUS/XM, channel 26 (SIRIUS), and channel 43 (XM), can now be heard twice, every Friday – Noon EST and then an encore broadcast at Midnight EST. Below is this week’s playlist. SIRIUS 97: Jean Michel Bernard – Generique Stephane ++ Grizzly Bear – Cheerleader ++ Yo La Tengo – [...]
(Diversions, a recurring feature on Aquarium Drunkard, catches up with our favorite artists as they wax on subjects other than recording and performing.) As tributes go, Townes is the sound of inevitability. One of Steve Earle’s biggest influences, the troubadour famously proclaimed ““Townes Van Zandt is the best songwriter in the whole world, and I’ll [...]
Greenwich Village folker Karen Dalton’s 1969 debut, It’s So Hard To Tell Who’s Going To Love You The Best, has been reissued for the first time (and on 180g vinyl) by the folks over at Light In The Attic Records. In 2006 the label reissued Dalton’s sophomore effort, In My Own Time, which, besides a [...]
Last month AD revisited Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds first four albums: From Her to Eternity, The Firstborn is Dead, Kicking Against the Pricks, and Your Funeral…My Trial – all of which have just been reissued/remastered with extended liner notes, b-sides and unreleased tracks. In keeping with the era, below is the band’s Posthof, [...]
(Sevens, a recurring feature on Aquarium Drunkard, pays tribute to the art of the individual song.) In 1995, through an unusual series of connections involving Coretta Scott King, my mother and high colonics, I got to attend the Martin Luther King, Jr. Day memorial at Ebenezer Baptist Church, the church where King pastored. It’s a [...]
This Thursday, June 4th, Aquarium Drunkard presents Cotton Jones at Spaceland in Silver Lake aided and abetted by our friends The Parson Red Heads. We have three pairs of tickets to giveaway to AD readers. If you’ve been keeping up with the various projects of Michael Nau (Page France, The Broadway Hush, Cotton Jones) and [...]
Off The Record is a recurring feature here on the Drunkard that marries two of my greatest interests; music and travel. Having a locals perspective when visiting a new locale is the difference between experiencing it through the lens of a tourist and of that of a native. Off The Record gathers some of my [...]
It’s a good time to be a Bad Seed. In addition to releasing the critically-acclaimed Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!, Nick Cave has, in the past year, toured relentlessly to rabid crowds, written the score to John Hillcoat’s adaptation of Cormac McCarthy’s The Road, curated the Australian edition of All Tomorrow’s Parties, and worked on the eventual [...]
